Sentence examples for religious decline from inspiring English sources

In fact Mr. Douthat mentions suburbanization as a cause of our religious decline.

Not bad, for a country that, according to some, is in terminal religious decline.

One result of this religious decline was a void in the lives of many Japanese--a void that the occupation authorities who drafted Japan's postwar constitution unwittingly helped to deepen.

The Gukanshō reflects the pessimistic mappō Buddhist doctrine, which saw the feudal period in which its author lived as one of religious decline and of disintegration of Japanese civilization, a view also held by modern historians.

Acknowledgements ReprintsIn fact, points out Peter Berger, head of the Institute on Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, few developing countries have shown signs of religious decline as their standards of living have risen.

The Civil War again brought a sharp religious decline (as it did also in scholarship), but in 1879 a group of undergraduates formed the Christian Social Union - after 1881 the Yale YMCA or Dwight Hall - which organized religious work on the campus and with time came to man a wide range of welfare activities.

Our divisions are religious: The decline of institutional Christianity means that we have no religious center apart from Oprah and Joel Osteen, the metaphysical gap between the secularist wing of liberalism and religious traditionalists is far wider than the intra-Christian divisions of the past, and on the fringes you can see hints of a fully post-Christian and post-liberal right and left.

As traditional religious institutions decline and professional sports grows ever more bloated with greed and hubris, we need some checks on our fanaticism.

Dr. Dean Hoge, a sociology professor specializing in religion at the Catholic University of America in Washington, said: "This order is bucking the trend in the U.S. Catholic clergy is declining in general and the religious are declining even faster".

Religious observance declined, and the nature of work changed.

China's state bureau of religious affairs declined to comment.